If owning your own airport was such a wonderful asset to an airline then how come fully vertically integrated airlines such as BA have never done it?
Low cost airlines are supposed to do one thing and do it well. That is to run a very tight scheduled operations, without frills, distractions and overheads. They tend to franchise out anything that is non-core to the business.
They don't get involved in anything that isn't selling tickets direct and operating each aircraft. Minimum complication, minimum expenditure, minimum staff, minimum service.
Keep it as simple as possible, just like a bus.
What they do not want to do is run the whole shebang from the carparks to the terminal to the refuelling to the freaking air traffic control. Thats the obsolute opposite of the business model!!
But then - I know nothing about running an airline so good luck them.
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